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I have made two pumpkin ales, one last year and one just last night in fact. I boiled the pumpkin purée in a heavy duty mesh bag used for wine making I think. I had great pumpkin flavor. Last years recipe may have been thunderstrucks but not sure. Also I listened to a podcast from the beer...

I love citra. Probably my favorite aroma and flavor hop. I have done a few beers in which I add 1/2 oz per five min with twenty minutes left in the boil. I'll dig up my recipe if you'd like. Sometimes I get a melon and tropic fruit flavor along with the citrus. Smells great too.

Thanks for the reply. Something to think about.

Has anyone done this with frozen cherries? I've been itching to do a cherry porter or maybe a stout. Charlie papazian has a few recipes in which he steeps the cherries at knockout and transfers them into the primary. After five days he scoops as many of the cherries as possible out. I've been...

Should I wash my hops??? It seems I have more bugs then last year. Or perhaps I am paying more attention to the hops this time around.

I'm kind of in the same situation. Why stop watering? Does it help the cones get that paper like feeling?

Pretty awesome way to transport some HomeBrew. Sure beats pouring in to growlers and bottles. I might need to make something like this. I'm just north of you in Everett. I am almost finished with a chest freezer conversion to a keezer. Pretty excited to get four kegs of brew nice and cold.

Pretty cool man. Where abouts are you in the northwest.